Buzz!
At this moment, outside the King-Class Awakening.
Suddenly, the pupils of White Impermanence Xie Bian and Black Impermanence Fan Wushe constricted sharply, and both drew a deep breath.
It was the origin!
The contamination had vanished!
"That kid really made it to the deepest part!!" A rare trace of joy appeared on Fan Wushe's fierce, menacing face.
Xie Bian could not help clenching his fists as well, his entire body trembling.
Fengdu's condition had long since gone beyond merely bad. Otherwise, he would not have sent Li Su—a peerless genius who clearly possessed the Netherworld's inheritance and extraordinary talent—to the origin core.
There truly had been no other way.
If this continued, Fengdu likely would not even last a few more months.
Sending Li Su down had been more an unavoidable choice than anything else. In truth, he had not been confident at all.
Yet he had never expected the other man to actually reach it.
And at a speed far, far faster than he had imagined. Added together, it had only been about half a day, hadn't it?
That was truly incredible. After all, the fastest record in Fengdu's history had still taken nearly an entire day. And that person's identity had been anything but ordinary—Fengdu's sole peerless genius in millions upon millions of years, a disciple of the Fengdu Emperor. Had it not been for the Great Cataclysm of ancient times, he should have been the candidate for the second Lord of Fengdu.
"Wait!"
After that brief moment of joy, Xie Bian's expression grew increasingly grave. He took a deep breath and looked at Fan Wushe.
The other man nodded and took an ancient book from his robes, old and worn beyond measure. Its cover had yellowed, the pages within cracked apart, eroded by unimaginably long years